Comments on: Create a wireless PAN with Centrino 2 and share data on multiple devices http://gigaom.com/mobile/centrino-2-crea/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:02:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: turn.self.off http://gigaom.com/mobile/centrino-2-crea/#comment-367709 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:12:11 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/centrino-2-crea#comment-367709 funny thing is that wireless pan was supposedly what bluetooth was to be all about, to the point of the bluetooth chips themselves being very cheap.

but for some unknown reason, every phone or laptop producer ended up only including bluetooth in their high-end products. and no built in bluetooth in desktops, set top boxes or similar, at least not the cheap ones.

end of story, bluetooth becomes a suit&tie thing only, unless your a geek.

this basically turns wifi into bluetooth. but being wifi, its much more power hungry for the job it does.

but then bluetooth sig recently had plans to make bluetooth and wifi cooperate so that when bluetooth needed to do some heavy lifting, it would set up a temporary wifi connection, and then drop right back to just bluetooth when done.

btw, any info on the protocols in use? will they be easy to implement in a open and free (both beer and freedom) manner?

if this is going to be a wintel only, its really not going to take off…

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The camera looks like the new Panasonic Lumix TZ50. Would be nice to see Eye-Fi compatible, though.

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